Western Railroad Discussion > Sunrise 26 Feb 2021

Brilliant sunrise east of North Platte, Nebraska, 26 February 2021. Just couldn't get a UP train to show up at the right time.

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Wow!

Beautiful photos. Did you baga goose for dinner? haha.
Nothing like the UP triple track east of North Platte to Gibbon Junction.
I was able to make good time down there with 844/3985 back in the good ole days.

Bob Krieger
Cheyenne, WY

A second Wow!

These are great examples of some of the added bonus observations railfans can make between trains or even when no trains show up.  The environment around us makes just being there a very pleasurable experience.

Bruce Stikkers
St. Joseph, IL

 

Man, in first picture, you don't even need a train.  What a shot!

tomstp Wrote:
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> Man, in first picture, you don't even need a
> train.  What a shot!

+1
Superb. 

That is amazing color!!! Well done!!!!

I think the first shot is better without  a train.  You don't want to shatter the tranquility.  Like the birds too,

JB - Omaha

And yet another WOW!!  Beautiful shots indeed!

It looks like you and your midwest neighbor, Lance (santafe199) couldn't buy a train yet still got some amazing shots on the same day - yours at sunrise in Nebraska and his at sunset in Kansas. Check out his post 2 lines up and 4-1/2 hours after yours.

Incredible!!

Thanks!


SWC

A Union Pacific sunset - The Lord's artisitc pallet is outstanding!!!  October 29 2018. Kearney NE

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I think you made Lance proud of you, on those two shots. Amazing what Mother Nature is capable of.

Valleyman

Valleyman Wrote: > ...  I think you made Lance proud of you ...

OMG YES!!! #1 is a slam-dunk, no excuses IOTD!    

Probably a good thing you got no train. Otherwise grown adult railfans would be weeping at the beauty...

Lance

Beautiful shots!  Very deserving of IOTD...
-Bill-

Bob3985 Wrote:
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> I was able to make good time down there with
> 844/3985 back in the good ole days.

Back in my Wyoming days, I remember chasing 844 west of Sidney, Nebraska with Mr. Nystrom (a great fellow who I still miss dearly) when, seeing a long line of clear signals, he decided to "stretch her out a little bit."  It was a deadhead move with no passengers on board the train.  Well, I was doing over 85 mph on U.S. 30, and 844 and her train was pulling away from me.  I did not catch up to the train again until the train got a bunch of yellow signals west of Pine Bluff, Wyoming.  And, yes, that sunrise is spectacular.  Anyone who thinks that the Great Plains can't have a wonderful beauty of their own has never lived there.  I've lived in both mountains and plains--I love both and can live happily in both.  I'll take either over some big city any day.  Great railfanning opportunities on the Great Plains, too--everything from busy mainlines to bucolic branch and shortlines.

What a wonderfull sky!

Pedro Rezende
Vespasiano MG,
https://youtube.com/c/minasgeraisrailways1

Extraordinary ! 
 

Awesome shots!

NIICE..!!